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douglas9

(5,740 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:22 AM 5 hrs ago

Exclusive: Epstein hid secret files in storage units across US

Jeffrey Epstein hid computers and photographs from United States authorities in secret storage lockers across the country, The Telegraph can reveal.

Documents uncovered by this newspaper show the paedophile paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida home in an apparent attempt to prevent investigators from finding it.

The documents also show that he rented six storage units across the US and used them to house items from his properties, including computers from Little Saint James, his private island in the Caribbean.

He leased at least one unit from 2003, when he was part of a Florida social set that included Donald Trump. Credit card receipts obtained by The Telegraph show regular storage payments continued until 2019, the year of his death.

Search warrants reviewed by The Telegraph suggest US authorities never raided the lockers, raising the possibility that they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mandelson.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/22/jeffrey-epstein-secret-files-storage-units-united-states/

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Irish_Dem

(80,605 posts)
1. The rich and powerful may have thought they destroyed all the evidence?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:39 AM
5 hrs ago

Now we are hearing about secret files.

I hope some of the rich SOBs are a bit nervous this morning.

LymphocyteLover

(9,654 posts)
5. Indeed. May panic abound. I just hope honest people are the ones who get to take the evidence
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:32 AM
4 hrs ago

Simeon Salus

(1,616 posts)
3. Love to see THIS on Storage Wars!
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:59 AM
5 hrs ago

It would be such a tragedy if this accidentally made it onto television where it can't be unseen.

IronLionZion

(51,066 posts)
4. last year they kept saying there are no files
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:29 AM
4 hrs ago

yet we keep finding out about tons of files.

They said there is no "list". Yet we have seen tons of names listed and some have faced career consequences in other countries.

The Dow is under 50,000 so we better get those files before it goes above 50,000 again.

Scrivener7

(59,081 posts)
7. I bet that was part of Ghislaine's conversation with Cankles's henchman that got her transferred to the country club
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:43 AM
4 hrs ago

prison.

Which means, I bet Cankles is featured in them.

niyad

(131,100 posts)
8. The "authorities" never raided the lockers, never looked at his ranch,
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:20 AM
3 hrs ago

ignored his Paris place, missed the "secret" room/safe in his NY place, etc., etc., etc. One would think it was done on purpose. Either that, or we were paying some of the most incompetent people in those departments ever. No writer of fiction could have ever gotten away with such a cast of incompetent assholes. No editor would have passed it. Fiction has to at least touch plausible reality.

lastlib

(27,915 posts)
9. Well, I for one, fully expect this DOJ will pursue.....
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:21 AM
3 hrs ago

getting search warrants for those lockers, like yesterday, right?



OTOH, EvaBlondi may want to get that evidence so she can further conceal it......

Gaugamela

(3,415 posts)
10. If payments stopped in 2019 the storage units would have been liquidated soon after.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:29 AM
3 hrs ago

The computers would have been wiped and any documents destroyed.

Sanity Claws

(22,392 posts)
11. I think some of the videos would be considered porn
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 08:47 AM
3 hrs ago

Depending on the person who got the videos, they might have been reported as child porn to local authorities, not that they did anything about it.

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usonian

(24,378 posts)
16. I think you are correct in your suspicion.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:06 AM
2 hrs ago

The wealthy are loss-averse.

Orange Julius has plenty to lose, as do a boatload of billionaires.

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